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Vietnam ready to welcome the 31st SEA Games

Only a few days left, the 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 31) officially opened. This SEA Games was held in Hanoi and 11 neighboring provinces and cities with the participation of more than 7,800 athletes, coaches and officials of 11 sports delegations from countries in the region. To ensure the successful organization of the congress, up to now, the provinces and cities have completed the work of securing the facilities, perfecting the plans and plans to ensure safety, security, prevention and control of the epidemic. , logistics and other services.

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Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam talks with athletes practicing at Bac Ninh Gymnasium. Nam Nguyen’s photo

Hanoi capital is a key area, where the opening and closing ceremonies of 18 sports are held at 14 locations, so the preparation work is very urgent and completed, ready to wait. Congress.

Complete renovation and upgrade of competition venues

The opening ceremony was a special art performance with the theme “For a Stronger Southeast Asia”, consisting of three chapters: Friendly Vietnam, Strong Southeast Asia, Shining Southeast Asia. The program includes a parade of athletes, a ceremony to raise the Vietnamese flag, the national anthem and the raising of the flags of Southeast Asian countries. In the early days of this May, under the artistic direction of Outstanding Artist Tran Ly Ly, Acting Director of the Performing Arts Department, 3,000 actors were mobilized from theaters, schools, and central agencies. The center and in Hanoi are enthusiastically practicing. Up to now, the actors have completed rehearsals for the performances and are now matching the sound and light before entering the rehearsal. On May 6, a torch relay ceremony will be held, starting from the Ho Chi Minh Museum to My Dinh Stadium.

By the end of April 2022, all 14 venues in Hanoi serving the 31st SEA Games had been renovated and upgraded and were handed over to the Organizing Committee of the Games. Director of the Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports Do Dinh Hong said: “The city has invested VND 620 billion to renovate and upgrade sports centers and gymnasiums to international standards. Hanoi City has established four sub-committees: Sub-committee on logistics, facilities, reception and ceremony; Sub-committee on information, propaganda and decoration; Sub-committee on health and health care; Sub-committee on security. security and order, fire and explosion prevention and control to coordinate with central agencies in implementing work”.

Bac Giang Provincial Sports Stadium is the venue for the 31st SEA Games badminton matches from May 16 to 22. After a period of active and thoughtful preparation, up to this point, the facilities at the gymnasium have been completed. Recently, badminton has successfully organized the National Excellent Racquetball Tournament in 2022 and drawn a lot of valuable experience to prepare for the SEA Games 31 badminton competition. Ball The table was held at Hai Duong Gymnasium from May 13 to 20. Mr. Nguyen Thanh Trung, Director of Hai Duong Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism said that the province has arranged a budget of about 10 billion VND to supplement, repair and upgrade the facilities of the gymnasium; install modern equipment according to standards, ensuring high quality requirements. In Hoa Binh province, preparations for the 31st SEA Games cycling race are ready. From infrastructure, racetrack, service work, welcoming delegations, urban decoration, volunteer training has been completed.

Focus on promoting the image of the country and people of Vietnam

The 31st SEA Games is an opportunity to promote the image, brand, and exploit the cultural tourism strengths of Vietnam in general, and the provinces and cities in particular. Up to now, all 30 districts, towns of Hanoi have done landscape and environment embellishment, took action to handle violations of urban order. Nam Tu Liem District is home to My Dinh Stadium and a number of other competition venues that have decorated clusters of panels, posters, banners, slogans, replanted flowers along the roads in the area. 10 wards. Many wards in Hoan Kiem district have mobilized people to decorate their houses and plant more pots to make a good impression on international tourists. During the SEA Games, the city will organize 16 cultural and art programs in the city center and districts, towns to serve the people and international guests.

For a few months now, the urban decoration has been drastically implemented by the People’s Committee of Bac Giang city, which is hosting the badminton competition of the 31st SEA Games. Thousands of square meters of sidewalks have been repaired, thousands of trees on the streets have been refurbished, replaced or planted. The Xuong Giang Bridge across the Thuong River is the entry point to the city, which is cleaned, flags, panels erected, and slogans hung to welcome the SEA Games. Bac Giang city has an initiative to mobilize people on all main streets to decorate with LED lights running around the walls of houses, combined with decorative lights on the trees to help the city shimmer and fanciful at night.

Hai Duong city mobilizes agencies, offices and businesses, households to invest in paving the pavement in front of their house. The city spent 85 billion dong from the budget to renovate the system of trees, summer, drainage system of main roads and the area around the stadium. Ms. Nguyen Thi Thu Ha, Chairwoman of the People’s Committee of Tran Phu Ward (Hai Duong City) said: The 31st SEA Games table tennis was held at the provincial sports hall, so people are very excited. Since April 29, people in the ward have cleaned the environment, decorated their houses and streets to create a civilized and modern urban landscape to celebrate the region’s major sporting event.

According to data from the 31st SEA Games Organizing Committee of Hanoi, more than 7,800 people attended the 31st SEA Games, including officials, coaches and athletes from 11 countries. In addition, there are 1,300 international referees, supervisors and technical officials, not to mention the presence of more than 2,500 domestic and foreign press reporters. Most of the guests are staying in Hanoi, so the city has prepared 31 hotels to welcome guests. Director of the Hanoi Department of Tourism Dang Huong Giang said: “This is the occasion that Hanoi welcomes the largest number of international visitors since the Covid-19 pandemic in a short period of time.

Therefore, we coordinate with the parties to serve the guests in the best way. On this occasion, the city introduces a series of short tours and festivals with international guests.” Nam Dinh province also prepares cultural, artistic, tourism and fair activities with 30 booths to promoting OCOP products; organizing food festivals; displaying and performing Vietnamese people’s practice of worshiping the Mother of God; and publishing documents and publications on transportation instructions, places to visit and tourism. typical calendar.

To support the activities of sports delegations from other countries at the SEA Games, the Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports has coordinated with central agencies to select 2,000 volunteers, mainly from Hanoi University and the University Institute. Open for events in Hanoi. The students have been trained to best meet the requirements of serving and supporting the delegations. Nguyen Van Dung, a student at Hanoi University said: “I am very excited to participate in volunteering activities. For me, this is an opportunity to strengthen communication skills and participate in social activities. I hope that I will make a small contribution to the success of this 31st Southeast Asian Games.”

Nam Dinh province has selected and trained 50 volunteers who are university students. Pham Thi Thuy Linh, a second-year student at Nam Dinh University of Economics and Technology, said: “The work of recruiting and training volunteers was done very carefully, with two rounds of interviews. All volunteers must ensure good communication in English, be fully informed about the whereabouts and travel schedules of the sports teams, as well as the outstanding monuments and landscapes of the Southern province of Vietnam. Dinh to introduce the beauty of the homeland and the people of Nam Định to international friends.

Bac Giang province selected 77 volunteers, including many young civil servants of the province. Ms. Phan Thi Viet, Deputy Chief Inspector of Bac Giang Department of Foreign Affairs, a volunteer at the 31st SEA Games said: “More than four months ago, I actively studied to improve my English level, while Time to learn documents about the SEA Games, the culture of Southeast Asian countries to prepare to participate in serving this event”. Senior Lieutenant Tran Quoc Bao, Traffic Police Team 56, Traffic Police Department (Hoa Binh Provincial Police) said, we will work hard to serve the delegations attending the SEA Games in the best way. I realize that this is also an opportunity for us to show our professional work in a professional, civilized and polite manner, creating beautiful images for international friends to impress with the land of Hoa Binh in the near future. During the time the province is hosting the contents of bicycle racing.

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